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Art.Lebedev announced that they will begin shipping the Optimus their OLED-keyboard.

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United Keys announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with Hon Hai Precision Industry Company, a member of Foxconn Technology Group. As part of this partnership, Foxconn, the world's largest contract manufacturer, will build display-key input devices using United Keys technology. The first product, a keyboard tailored for PC gaming, will start shipping as early as summer. The company also announced new patents and patents pending in a number of countries, representing a portfolio of IP with broad application making use of display keys.

Display-keys are regular keyswitches with small OLED (organic light-emitting diodes) displays embedded in their tops. This allows interactive and image-based communication between software and users. The promise of display-key input devices is a significant improvement in usability for any application. For example, macros or other actions can be mapped to OLED keys with user-customizable images or icons precisely identifying their function. In the future, display-key support will be included in new software applications, where keyboard OLEDs change contextually and dynamically. Driven by intelligent software, images on these small OLEDs will simplify command choices, increase productivity and create a more engaging, interactive computing experience. United Keys' strategy of enabling standard keyswitches retains an important usability attribute: tactile feedback. It also helps keep costs low.

United Keys has secured patents for broad application of display-key technology -- including interaction logic between software and hardware, transmission of images over networks and the internet, and user customization -- related to a wide range of input devices, including cell phones, remotes, game consoles, automobiles and medical devices. Besides the U.S., the company has patents or patents pending in numerous countries, including China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Canada and the European Union.

Art.Lebedev (makers of the OLED optimus keyboard) has a new prototype called Optimus Tactus. The idea is to have one large OLED display, which is touch sensitive.

This way you can change not only individual keys, but to completely change the keyboard's layout.

The original OLED keyboard "optimus" has a price of 1,564$. Now Art.Lebedev are offering more models of the keyboard, which will cost less and have less OLED displays.

The differences between the models boil down to how many keys integrate OLEDs. $1564 buy a full LED version with 113 LED keys. 47 active OLED keys (all letter keys) will ring up at $999, 10 OLED keys (function keys) will cost $599 and if one OLED, integrated in the space bar, is enough, you will have to pay $462.

Sony has started to sell the XEL-1, the world's first OLED TV in Japan - for ¥200,000 (or about $1,800). This is actually a few days sooner then expected. The XEL-1 has a 11" 960x540 OLED panel and it's only 3mm thick. It features 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, a terrestrial digital tuner, speakers, HDMI, USB and Ethernet jacks. It weights 2 kg.

Sony plans to make only 2,000 units a month, and has no plans to up the production at this stage. The company regards the XEL-1 is a "technological demo" more than a real product.

Art Lebedev Studiods OLED keyboard (Optimus Maximus) has cleared the FCC. The wireless keyboard will also include 512MB in a SD card to store the icons for the OLED displays.

The keyboard will be delayed a bit, and will not be able to ship before the end of the year.

Toshiba showed their latest audio player (Gigabeat) prototype, which has a OLED 3.2" WQVGA screen.

Read more here (Gizmodo) 

Fossil will release a new watch with an OLED display soon.

This is a normal watch - no MP3 or phone or things like that. 

Read more here (Technabob) 

LG Electronics said on Tuesday that it plans to roll out mobile phones with AM OLED panels through SK Telecom for the first time in Korea in the second half of this year.

"LG Electronics decided to adopt AM OLED panels, developed jointly with LG.Philips LCD, for mobile phones. This decision will be the first time that AM OLEDs will be used in mobile phones," the company said.

This is actually not true, since KDDI already has a phone with AMOLED display

The Iriver Clix2 is now selling on amazon. The 2/4/6Gb player has a 2.2-inch QVGA AMOLED display, made by Samsung SDI.

It supports MP3/WMA/OGG/MP4/WMV formats, and it also includes an FM radio, voice/radio recording and 25 hours of battery life.